Yet another Ring camera hack victim contacted by teen hacker, who says he watches people naked and performing sex acts
A CREEPY hacker who infiltrated a man’s Ring camera bragged to the horrified homeowner that he has witnessed intimate moments. The squeaky-voiced hacker can be heard saying he sees naked people and that he’s seen somebody performing a sex act after he came clean during a conversation with a homeowner he hacked in Florida. Joshua […]
A CREEPY hacker who infiltrated a man’s Ring camera bragged to the horrified homeowner that he has witnessed intimate moments.
The squeaky-voiced hacker can be heard saying he sees naked people and that he’s seen somebody performing a sex act after he came clean during a conversation with a homeowner he hacked in Florida.
Joshua Koop’s voice can be heard as he videos the seemingly innocuous camera on his phone.
He asks the hacker – who claims to be 16 – if he hacks into the home’s internal camera systems too.
The boy responds: “All of them,” and that he has seen naked people before.
He adds: “I’ve seen somebody giving head.”
A horrified Koop can be heard saying: “You’re not old enough to watch that are you?”
The hacker then goes on to brag that it’s not his first run-in with the police, taunting a female officer who has come to investigate.
The teen says: “Cops aren’t no scare to me, I’ve seen them billions of times.”
Then as the woman walks over: “D*mn girl cop. D*mn girl.”
He also boasts that one of his friends “got on the news” after hacking a Ring camera and “spewing racial slurs and telling little kids he was Santa Claus.”
Mr. Koop has since removed all the cameras.
The hack attack is the latest in a string of incidents which have seen US homes virtually invaded via digital doorbell camera systems.
A spokesperson for the company has said that the system is not hackable, but rather customer’s individual accounts which are left vulnerable when users recycle old usernames and passwords.
Ring recommends setting up two-factor authentication and regularly changing passwords to avoid hacks.
Just last week an eight-year-old girl was terrified when a Ring camera in her bedroom began talking to her and insisting he was Santa Claus.
The camera had been set up inside the home for just four days when the chilling incident occurred.
In another horrific incident a woman is reported to have screamed: “I’m coming for the baby if you don’t answer me, bi**h!” at a terrified nanny.
Amidst the terrifying incidents, tech website Gizmodo compiled supposedly hidden GPS data from more than 65,000 posts on Ring’s Neighbor app, exposing the locations of thousands of homeowners.
The company, which was bought by Amazon for more than $1 billion in 2018, has previously said hidden location data was available to be shared with police if users chose to do so.
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However, Gizmodo was able to access the geographical data linked to every post as part of its investigation.
The coordinates uncovered “were accurate enough to place a person directly in front of a Ring device; roughly four-to-six feet from home addresses volunteered by Neighbors users”, according to Gizmodo.
In a statement to the website, Ring said: “Only content that a Neighbors user chooses to share on the Neighbors App is publicly accessible through the Neighbors App or by your local law enforcement.”
